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Joan Allen

Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956, Rochelle, United States), aged 70, is an American actress (born 1956). Allen's honours include Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Theatre World Award and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Joan Allen’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Monkey, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Joan Allen’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Joan in the U.S.?

#987

US rank in 2025

~488,939

Americans share it since 1880

1932

its peak year

The SSA recorded 8,080 American girls and 25 boys named Joan in 1956: 52nd among girls and 1,589th among boys for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Joan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

4

Soul Urge · solid ground

8

Personality · capable, in charge

The name opens on J (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Joan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 9

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

The record

What sets Joan apart

Andrew Garfield (1983) and Amy Adams (1974) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Joan, according to the stars

Core essence

Joan is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Joan is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Joan needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Joan needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.

How Joan wants to be loved

Joan wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Joan gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Joan creates

How Joan makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Joan creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Joan is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Joan is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Joan slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Joan's birth date. Working below.

Where Joan sits

Six lines

Joan’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Joan

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Joan

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Joan

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Joan

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Joan

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Joan

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Joan Allen

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Rochelle on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Joan’s birth-night reference starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 82.7° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 18.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Rochelle that night

Computed for 41.92°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Rochelle was Vega, in Lyra, 82.7° up.

Of the 83 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Rochelle sits at 41.9°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Rochelle at all: they sit past the −48.1° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon, 100% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 12° below the horizon.

How unusual Joan's chart is

Chart pattern score

37 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Leo · Mars retrograde

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Joan Allen at a glance

Leo Sun

The room rearranges itself.

Joan Allen's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 20, 1956, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Monkey

Solved it, and made a joke.

Joan Allen was born on August 20, 1956, which falls in a Fire Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Monkey means →

Life Path 4

Builds it properly or not at all.

Joan Allen's birth date, August 20, 1956, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Joan’s chart

Joan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 24° Aquarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury faces off with Mars · Opposition, 0.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.2° orbSun opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 0.5° orbSun fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.6° orbSun grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.1° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.8° orbVenus opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.5° orbMars flows with Saturn · Trine, 3.5° orbSun in Leo · 27°37′☉27°Moon in Aquarius · 18°34′☽18°Mercury in Virgo · 22°46′☿22°Venus in Cancer · 12°19′♀12°Mars in Pisces · 22°59′ · retrograde♂℞22°Jupiter in Virgo · 8°51′♃8°Saturn in Scorpio · 26°31′♄26°Uranus in Leo · 4°12′♅4°Neptune in Libra · 28°07′♆28°Pluto in Leo · 28°16′♇28°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileNeptune0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Joan’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryoppositionMars0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Joan’s mind pulls against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunconjunctionPluto0.2° to 1.1° orb

    Joan’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto0.2° orb

  • stableSunsquareSaturn0.6° to 1.6° orb

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto1.7° to 1.8° orb

  • stableMercurysextileSaturn3.1° to 4.4° orb

  • stableVenussextileJupiter3.1° to 3.8° orb

  • stableMarstrineSaturn3.5° to 3.6° orb

  • stableUranussquareNeptune6.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 2.0° to 13.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleSunoppositionMoonorb from 3.5° to 14.6° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

Joan’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aquarius 8°00′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Aries 21°02′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ Eros ℞Capricorn 19°46′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Capricorn 18°46′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 28°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Neptune 0.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Saturn 2.3°
  • Eros trine Mercury 3.0°

Joan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun10 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4 pts

    4 major aspects

Configurations in Joan’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Leo · Sun, Uranus, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.3°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.8°
  • Mars biquintile Neptune 0.9°
  • Venus semi-square Pluto 1.0°
  • Saturn semi-sextile Neptune 1.6°

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From the journal: What if you don't know your birth time? · Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet

Joan’s cards

Computed from August 20, 1956. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Monkey 申

Life Path

4 · Architect

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Joan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q229305 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Jared Purdy at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredpurdy/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Joan Allen at Wikipedia and IMDb.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joan Allen.

Quick answers about Joan Allen’s chart

How old is Joan Allen?
Joan Allen is 70 years old, born August 20, 1956 in Rochelle, United States.
What zodiac sign is Joan Allen?
Joan Allen is a Leo: born August 20, 1956, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Joan Allen's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Monkey, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 20, 1956 birth.
What is Joan Allen's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Joan Allen's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aquarius at 8°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Joan Allen's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Joan Allen's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; disposes Uranus, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Mercury is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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